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Topline The Trump administration’s transgender military ban will take effect again while litigation against it moves forward, as the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to throw out a lower court’s ruling that put the controversial policy on hold. Vin Testa waves a LGBTQ pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2023 in … More Washington, DC.Getty Images Key Facts The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a lower court’s ruling that paused the policy, which states that “individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no…

One of the sons of Sinaloa kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has reached a plea agreement with U.S. federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to several drug conspiracy charges in the coming weeks. During a court hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman Lopez and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois filed a notice with U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman about Guzman’s intention to change his plea of not guilty. Based on the new information, Johnson canceled a status hearing set for May 12 and set a hearing for July 9,…

A former guitarist for the San Francisco death metal band Possessed was shot and killed by South San Francisco police last week after shooting at a neighbor and then shooting at responding officers. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that 60-year-old Brian Montana “became enraged over tree debris spilling over from a neighbor’s yard.” An argument with the neighbor ensued and soon escalated into shots being fired. The Los Angeles Times reported that Montana armed himself with various guns as officers arrived on scene and fired at police. A press release from the South San Francisco Police Department says: “The armed suspect repositioned…

Boris Pistorius reportedly wants €60 billion allocated for the armed forces this year German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is seeking a major hike to the country’s military budget effective this year, Reuters has reported, citing sources.Pistorius, the only minister to retain his role under Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s new government, has previously claimed that Russia may attack a NATO country and that Germany “must be ready for war by 2029.”Moscow has repeatedly dismissed the claims as “utter nonsense.”Pistorius, according to a Reuters source, hopes for a “drastic increase” to over €60 billion ($68.21 billion) for the military in 2025, up from…

Trump’s Department of Energy has fired 114 federal employees at a Colorado ‘Green Energy’ Lab. They worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and laid off last week as a result of funding cuts under the Trump administration, which is moving to dismantle Biden-era energy subsidies to low-return fields such as solar and wind programs. The cuts represent roughly 3% of the lab’s workforce, and the individuals were terminated with the lab citing federal budget constraints, new priorities from the Department of Energy, and specific stop-work orders. On its website, however, it still listed 60 open and unfilled jobs.…

Former NBA basketball player Magic Johnson, NBC commentator, at the 1993 NBA Finals – Game 5, … More Chicago Bulls vs Phoenix Suns, held at the Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, US, 18th June 1993. (Photo by Bongarts/Getty Images)Getty Images AI is breathing new life into one of sports media’s most iconic partnerships: the NBA and NBC. Last summer, the two sides inked a new 11-year deal that will bring the NBA back to NBCUniversal networks like NBC, Telemundo, and streaming service Peacock. Now, NBC is adding an emotional and technological twist to the revival. NBC revealed that the voice of…

“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.” — Harmeet Dhillon, US Assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division When a claque of deep state shills such as Norm Eisen, Chuck Schumer, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Larry Summers holler about Mr. Trump’s attempt to reform a depraved political culture as “an assault on norms,” are you not prompted to wonder what, exactly, those norms might be? Looks like they are describing a colossal matrix of racketeering operations in concert with an epic program of crypto-Marxist mind-fuckery, mountains of money purloined under color-of-law, swindles galore of…

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday proposed legislation to eliminate the intelligence community’s surveillance tools that “erode” Americans’ civil liberties. “For over two decades, rogue actors within our U.S. intelligence agencies have used the PATRIOT Act to create the most sophisticated, unaccountable surveillance apparatus in the Western world,” Luna said in a written statement to Breitbart News. Luna introduced the American Privacy Restoration Act, a bill that would repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, a sweeping September 11th, 2001 terrorist bill that drastically expanded government surveillance. Elizabeth Goitein, Senior Director for the Liberty & National Security program at the Brennan Center…

Whitehall will revive and update the Cold War-era Government War Book, a detailed plan for dealing with an attack on the nation by a foreign power — Russia, in other words — for the first time in decades as war mania continues to ramp up. The United Kingdom government is to update plans on how to respond to a direct Russian attack on British territory for the first time since the Cold War. Meanwhile, in polling to gauge the public mood at the time of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a pollster has found concern…

Thirty-five Democrats in the U.S. House joined Republicans last week to repeal California Governor Gavin Newsom’s attempt to ban sales of gas-powered cars in his state in favor of electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035. The House used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) last week to repeal Newsom’s rules. The CRA, which was signed by President Bill Clinton, allows Congress to repeal regulations not submitted to it for approval within a set time frame. It was largely unused until 2017, when Republicans took Democrats by surprise and used the CRA to overturn rules that President Barack Obama had rushed to promulgate…